Just a heads-up, there's a lunar eclipse tonight. It's sort of late. It centers around about 4:30am here. Check spaceweather for more information. The timing isn't a huge problem; I'm willing to get up in the middle of the night to bring you fine photographs of night sky phenomena... unfortunately, a big storm has descended onto New Mexico and the NOAA expects heavy rains and total cloud cover all night. Ugh.

So someone please go out and enjoy it in my stead.

PS: don't worry, I'm still getting up at 3am to see if there is a break in the clouds. Who knows; maybe I'll get a lunar eclipse/lightning combo photo. That would rock.

And while we're on the subject, check out this great time-lapse video of a lunar eclipse from earlier this year (900k).